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Very cool trompe l'oeil murals on the sides of buildings:


"Hey, are you guys open?"

Article here and more photos here on the artist's site.

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Hey man, Sorry I Missed Your Party.com.


Guitar Hero


Meth hats


Helga is ready to drink and weld


Dog pipe


Joe versus the Volcano


Mountain Mafia


thumbhead


OK, this party actually looks pretty cool.


so many more

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The Guardian reports: We [Pink Floyd] were in a BBC TV studio jamming to the landing. It was a live broadcast, and there was a panel of scientists on one side of the studio, with us on the other. I was 23.

The programming was a little looser in those days, and if a producer of a late-night programme felt like it, they would do something a bit off the wall. Funnily enough I've never really heard it since, but it is on YouTube. They were broadcasting the moon landing and they thought that to provide a bit of a break they would show us jamming. It was only about five minutes long. The song was called Moonhead - it's a nice, atmospheric, spacey, 12-bar blues.



I also remember at the time being in my flat in London, gazing up at the moon, and thinking, "There are actually people standing up there right now." It brought it home to me powerfully, that you could be looking up at the moon and there would be people standing on it.

At the time, Pink Floyd had been doing rather well. For a while, the band had been somewhat erratic and its reputation was sinking. I joined in 1968, 18 months before the moon landing. By then we were beginning to climb back up again.

It was fantastic to be thinking that we were in there making up a piece of music, while the astronauts were standing on the moon. It doesn't seem conceivable that that would happen on the BBC nowadays.

It didn't have a significant impact on our later work. I think at the time Roger [Waters], our lyricist, was looking more into going inwards, going into the inner space of the human mind and condition. And I think that was sort of the end of our exploration into outer space.

We didn't make any songs out of the jam session. We did, on occasions, do music live that would be a jam session of some sort; that would have some structure which we would organise ourselves. And I've heard documentaries where I recognise my music. It's very odd to be watching a documentary and to hear something that you know is yourself, but you have no recognition of when you did it or how. I've never forgotten Moonhead, though.

After all, it's not hard to remember exactly where I was. - David Gilmour

• Moonhead was broadcast at 10pm on 20 July 1969.

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OldJewsTellingJokes.com is just old Jews. And they tell (old) jokes. With hilarious results.



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Breakfast at Sulimay's is a trio of old folks who deconstruct current indie rock hits.
This is them reviewing an MF Doom track and a Phoenix track.



Sometimes Joe falls asleep.

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So these folks at Meatcards had a vision and a dream and (obviously) a business plan that one day the world will collapse in a fiery apocalypse and the only thing left to eat will be our business cards. Therefore they decided to start laser etching business cards into slabs of meat.


My God it's full of Meat and Win.

As if that wasn't genius enough, they had the foresight to run a contest asking regular joes to re-create classic Frank Frazetta paintings with some important rules to consider:

Do not halfass the photo. If there is a dinosaur in the painting, there had better be something awesomely dinosaur-y in your picture. Not a stuffed animal, or your cat. Unless your cat is six feet tall and has a wicked gleam in its eye. We will be judging on creativity, ingenuity, and attitude.

No photoshopping. No shooping whatsoever. We have shooped the whoop many times, and we will be able to tell.

Judging is gender-agnostic. That's a man in the bikini holding the knife? Fine! We will judge based on whether he's successfully achieving the Fierce Frazetta Stance. Gender and body morphology do not matter in the contest, but attitude, creativity, and costume do.

Pictures do not need to be work-safe, fully clothed, partially clothed, tasteful, appropriate, or attractive.

A couple of examples lifted from BoingBoing (since they did what I was going to do):


oh, and if you need a larger shot of "The Best Photo Evar" it can be found here:



I also gotta hand it to these bros for a lot of reasons:

Guitars are weapons.

They seem to own symphony conductor-style suitcoats with tails that may or may not have Buddy Guy tour dates silkscreened on the back.

They went through that entire case of Smirnoff Vodka just before this shoot.

Fishing Poles, An Oar, Crutches.

When they needed something huge and fierce to resemble a dinosaur, they obviously gravitated toward the drum kit with deer head attached.

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